the workshop is a collaborative project between artisans, designers and artists taking place in Oaxaca for the last 12 years.....

As a primary goal, Oax-i-fornia seeks to investigate new methodologies for the use of design and creativity as tools for social change and cultural engagement.Artisans maintain ownership of the objects that arise out of the collaborations, which often bring them into a new marketplace.We aim not only to provide material benefits, however, but also to provide local people with tools to continue working on their own and to create their own entrepreneurial spaces.Through hands-on making, we aim to establish bonds across cultures and to ultimately challenge our preconceived notions of otherness and difference in the process.